OS MUTANTES ESTREIA by OS MUTANTES

This is the first album by this legendary group that was one of the founding forces of the Tropicalia movement, a brilliant musical statement that easily ranks with some of the most groundbreaking late 60s American work by The Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, or The Stooges! The music is a wonderful blend of 60s rock and early MPB -- hard-driving with plenty of guitars, but also produced with beautifully baroque touches that echo through simultaneous albums by Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa (who also contributed a number of tracks to the album) .